Method of decorating enamel ware, china, porcelain, majolica, glass, &amp;c.



No. 844,516. PATEN'I'ED FEB. 19, 190-7. R. GOTTLIEB. METHOD OF DECORATING ENAMEL WARE, CHINA, PORCELAIN, MAJOLIGA,

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APPLIOATION FILED DEO.16, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLF GOTTLIEB, OF BRUNN, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

METHOD OF DECORATING ENAMEL WARE, CHINA. PORCELAIN. MAJOLICA, GLASS, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed December 15, 1905. Serial No. 291,837.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I. RUDoLF Go'rTLIEB, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Flussbettgasse, 4, in the city of Brunn, Austria, have invented a new and useful Method of Decorating Enamel Ware, China, Porcelain, Majolica, Glass, and the Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

. blown or laid on and entering the perforations remains attached at such perforations to the surface of the article when the pattern is removed. As aresult there is produced upon the surface of the article a reproduction of the design or configuration of the pattern. The patterns used in such earlier methods are made of sheet metal, cardboard or other stiffmaterial in the form of sheets, with the design perforated into or cut through the sheet. Such stiff-sheet patterns have the disadvantage that, when the surfaces to be decorated are rounded or belly out or are irregular the patterns cannot be laid lightly upon or willnot closely fit such surfaces, and as a result the enamel mass or paint enters between the sheet and the surface at the places where the fit is not close or tightand the finished decoration appears diffused or smutted at such places. A further disadvantage of the use of these stiff sheets is found in the fact that delicate designs comprising fine or thin lines and designs of delicate structure cannot be put upon articles having enamel, china, majolica, glass, or the like surfaces. Especially is this true where the design is to be a reproduction of a lace-like figure, inasmuch as the required fine finish is impossible to produce-when stiff sheets are employed.

The present invention relates to a process for surface decoration which is especially useful for reproducing designs having delicate lines, such as lace-like figures, and the novel step consists in employing instead of the stiff sheets or strips heretofore used lace or other woven, knitted, or looped fibrous material having perforations, thereby providing a soft ,flexible pattern which when laid upon a surface of any configuration will closely fit upon said surface at every part thereof and then applying by blowing or otherwise an enamel mass or paint, (of a color which contrasts when dry with that of the original surface,) so that it enters between the interstices and openings of the lace. The threads of the lace do not permit the paint or enamel to pass therethrouglr, nor can such enamel or paint enter underneath said lace. As a consequence, the applied enamel or paint is confined to the interstices or perforations. When the lace is removed from the surface, a lacelike configuration, or one having fine or delicate lines, is found upon the article, and resembles very closely the original lace which was used. The article so decorated is dried and fired'in the usual manner.

r 'In the accompanying drawing I have shown a vase decorated according to the process herein described.

For the purposes of the pattern any kind of lace or lace-like material may be used, including those produced by weaving, knitting bobbin-work, looping, or in any other 'Way, and such patterns may show any desired design or configuration. Among the kinds of lace which may be used I mention Brussels lace, Venetian lace, Valenciennes lace, Mechelner lace, Erzgebirge lace, Colbert lace, Argentan lace, and others.

Especial attention is called to the point of distinction, as compared with the earlier recited process, which characterizes my improvement that the structure of the lace or lace-like pattern is exactly reproduced as the decoration, while in the method which employs stiff sheets or strips the decoration corresponds to the multitudinous perforations of the pattern and usually appears as a mass of dots or spots.

I claim 1. The method of decorating enamel, porcelain, china, majolica, and the like surfaces with a lace-like design, consisting in directly and closely applying an ornamental flexible attern of lace or the like upon the surface to be decorated, then blowing upon the portions of said surface exposed by the perforations of the lace, a thick enameling paint of a contrasting color, removing the fibrous material,

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and permitting the applied enamel to harden. of a contrasting color, removing the fibrous 2. The method of decorating enamel, pormaterial, and permitting the applied enamel celain, china, majolica, and the like surfaces to harden. i with a lace-like design, consisting in apply- In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 ing an ornamental flexible pattern of lace or name to this specification in the presence of 15 the like so closely upon the surface to be dectwo subscribing witnesses. orated as to prevent the flowing of enamel RUDOLF GOTTLIEB. underneath said lace, then applying to the Witnesses: portions of said surface exposed by the per- I-IUeo REACHL,

1o forations of the lace, a thick enameling paint I SAMUEL SAcHs. 

